The young men and women who challenged segregation as Freedom Riders in the spring and summer of 1961 are now senior citizens. Last year the photographer Eric Etheridge began searching out and making contemporary portraits of the more
than 300 Riders who were arrested and served prison time in his home state of Mississippi. Helen Singleton, 73, and her husband, Robert, 70, who married in 1955 and traveled from California to sit in the whites-only waiting room
of the Jackson train station, are among his subjects. Their portraits are shown here along with mug shots taken 45 years ago this month.